The New Lots Avenue station is the eastern end of the line for #3 and #4 IRT trains. This view, from NYC Subways’ 1980s collection, shows a pair of graffitied rolling stock idling in the station waiting for their citybound run to begin.
Note that in the 1980s there were still a good number of enamel signs around, dating back to the 1910s and 1920s, but the Unimark signs employing Standard and Helvetica fonts were about to claim total sovereignty.
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According to http://www.nycsubway.org this station is unique. All other terminal stations on elevated structures end with bumper blocks; that is the tracks and structure do not continue beyond the station. At New Lots the tracks continue east (southbound in official subway operating parlance) and lead to a large yard and inspection barn that straddles Linden Boulevard. The MTA’s early plans, around 1968-69, envisioned extending revenue trains on this alignment terminating at a new station adjacent to the yards and geographically south of Linden Boulevard, to serve the Spring Creek area. This extension never happened.
If the Exit sign fully followed Unimark’s 1970 NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual, the arrow should precede the word Exit. http://thestandardsmanual.com/page.html#68
There was also apparently a plan to extend the line further east along New Lots Av. See the link below.
http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/?z=10&p=1016951,182327&c=GIS2012
Why is New Lots Avenue IRT terminal station the only one without its neighborhood listed on subway signs?